Talk about the emperor having no clothes. Man decides he is a woman. Everyone says OK and shrugs. Let's put her in a women's jail and record her crime as being committed by a woman. Oh and then wait for the misogynists to say female violent crime is climbing…

Isn't it a bit early for 1 April? It would be laughable if it was not so bizarre and surreal.

Sorry, but when I read this story earlier today I assumed it was his son. The picture is of a man, is it not a recent picture?

Is this individual really going to be housed in the women's prison estate? Do they have a gender identity certificate (is that the correct term)? Is this crime going to be recorded as a female perpetrator?

There must be enough cases now so trans gender get own cell or share with another trans gender person.

You can't argue about sharing a cell with a male body in a women's prison of you have a male body yourself. Though be interesting to hear their arguments about how this woulnt make them feel safe yet same time expecting other women to feel safe with them.

Mide, the concern is that currently, when women say, "We need to address the issue of male violence," we get a thousand words about how women commit violent crimes to, to which we can respond by saying that they do, but in far smaller numbers, now please can we get back to that issue of male violence we were trying to address. Lump TW's crime figures in with women's and the distinction becomes much less clear.

Its also important because we keep getting told we are hysterical for being concerned about letting men who claim to be women into women only spaces. Poor harmless transwomen who need protecting from nasty male violence. Which obviously they are not prone to, what with being women